I’m sorry but none of those devices had a CPU in them, the H1 chip in these is actually a CPU.. it’s not satire I mean it’s like saying phones have existed since the 1970s when the iPhone came out...
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I am a little disappointed in Apple for not adding storage to these though, it wouldn’t be very hard to add a few gigabytes to them and then they would work even without your phone and it would be the iPod all over again. Missed opportunity by Apple for sure.
As a shameless plug I am working on what I think is the perfect companion App for iPods. My app let’s you listen to any article by using some amazing sounding Machine Learning models to grab the articles and convert them to audio. You can check it out here if you like: https://articulu.com
Also commented on here, but the discussion seems to have split. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19441487
I am a little disappointed in Apple for not adding storage to these though, it wouldn’t be very hard to add a few gigabytes to them and then they would work even without your phone and it would be the iPod all over again. Missed opportunity by Apple for sure.
As a shameless plug I am working on what I think is the perfect companion App for iPods. My app let’s you listen to any article by using some amazing sounding Machine Learning models to grab the articles and convert them to audio. You can check it out here if you like:
I’ve been working on a an Audio App that reads any articles to you for iOS/Android and planned to bring it to the Echo and he seems to suggest my efforts are totally wasted. Although their market reach seems to be massive, likely related to their cheap price, not surprised by this article that their actual usage is incredibly low. Most people seem to buy them and then forget about them.
As a shameless self plug, if you would like to check out my app that reads articles to you using beautiful sounding AI/ML, find it here:
I think your story is important and why I think we should be pushing people more to this sort of arrangement.
Even VCs will never give you a penny without first quitting your job, but honestly some of the seed stuff I don’t see why one couldn’t do both if there is promise.
Totally agree that could kill the idea of doing both. At times employers have made folks sign very strict contracts, most though would not stand up in courts as long as you never use their equipment and never do it on work time.
My only beef with the calculator is that I’d like to recommend another approach, that is you don’t actually need to quit your job to make, that is the end goal shouldn’t just be to quit. The costs of starting tech business have never been so low to get a an idea off the ground you can benefit from both a job and the other thing your working on. Steph Smith has a great post on this
https://blog.stephsmith.io/you-dont-need-to-quit-your-job-to...
I basically built it exactly for these sorts of reasons I found that I had all this dead time. On my commutes and in between running errands, or biking, and I wanted to maximize my learning and staying informed.
I am trying hard to making sure to comment on things that are relevant and trying to add value with a little self promotion sprinkled in and I’m sorry about that but the feedback has been incredibly useful.
I went down this path of trying both and ultimately ended up building my side project with flutter. My project is a cross platform App that reads articles to you using some great sounding open source AI/ML models by converting any article to audio so you can maximize that dead time on your commute.
This is a little self promotional but if you want to see what’s possible with Flutter, you can check it out here:
Edit: while I get folks may be upset with my comment and are down voting me, I’ve geniunely worked with both technologies so I’m not just making this up.
In the end, nothing. Nothing would materialize, we would start some work then realize how much effort these grand schemes were and get completely discouraged.
Then I forced myself to stop rattling off these crazy ideas, instead just whisper the big vision to myself and break it down to its smallest viable parts for building (aka MVP) and go off try to build that. After trying about 3 different ones so far and failing to get any traction on those 3 I have the pain of having spent my nights and weekends trying to make ideas work.
I no longer rattle off crazy ideas to people because I’ve come to understand what it actually means to go off and build them.
As a little self promotion, my latest idea (I know right) is actually kind of working but it took a ton of effort and I am afraid to even talk about the grand vision but non the less have been chipping away at it on the weekends.
I built an app that lets you listen to any Article on the go so you can maximize that dead time on your commute or when biking. The app is cross platform and uses some beautiful sounding AI ML models to convert Text to Audio.
You can try it here if you have the time, but just know it took a ton of effort and discipline to go from Idea to App.
The options are two and three and I also live in NYC and I would have voted for 2. It makes no sense what’s happened with this thing, while Amazon has some fault by making a spectacle of all this, NY politicians believing they are “saving” us deserve the bulk of the blame.
https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...
Now, as a parent I am absolutely disgusted that there was recently discovered a YouTube “gang” pushing comments that were promoting pedophilia, in plain sight, tagging comments so algorithms could pick them up and other folks could easily find them.
Secondly I am disgusted by the fact that there are videos embedded within Peppa pig videos on YouTube, in the middle, pushing kids to harm themselves and it is impossible to detect them. Google these things they are all real.
Look I get it, I’m a parent, I’m responsible for my child so the YouTube app is gone, she will not get access to it until she’s old enough. That still does not make this stuff ok, these are terrible human beings creating this stuff. I applaud YouTube for stepping in but I still won’t install their app anymore, this does not mean it is ok for their platform to become a great place for that sort of stuff no platform should ever serve that.
When folks on here comment and say one parents voice outnumbers 100 others, why the hell not if this content is targeted at our kids?
Edit:
Exhibit A:
(This one is apperantly fake news, sorry. I was fooled myself a few days ago.)
Exhibit B: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...
If you use their cloud products, ala Netflix, they may decide to compete with you any moment. Netflix may have been too far along to be beat but the next product won’t be. If you sell products on their market place and if they do well you run the risk of them copying you. If you do anything in their ecosystem you are living with the fear that the lion may wake up and swallow you whole at any point and time.
Edit: Maybe I’m a bit paranoid but this feels like a great way for them to get to know exactly who your customers are and what their behavior is. All the while training their own personalization to get much better.
lol, appreciate that, thank you for trying it.
At this time there is no limit to the size, it’s distributed on the backend so could technically do a whole book.
If I didn’t spend some time thinking I would’ve never built this thing :)
Still though on these busy commutes, especially while standing, I find the time much better spent staying informed and learning but that’s just me.
In my view iterative development is far harder, maybe even impossible, to do at companies that don’t have the culture for it. Startups have it and most grow up with it but you’ll struggle to succeed with this approach at any big company. They may introduce Agile and bring in Agile coaches but they are just putting lipstick on the pig. That culture is set, I say this having seen it first hand.
As an example, and a little self promotion that I hope I won’t get downvoted for :) I have been working on a cross platform App that reads any article to you. It uses AI/ML models to convert the text to audio so you can listen on the go and maximize learning on that dead time on commutes.
This is a fairly complex thing to build, especially in a few months and to make it work cross platform. We now have a lot of features but this all happened feature by feature. Get one thing done, get it out, start on the next thing. If I tried this approach in a big team at a big company there is absolutely no way we would have this much done in a few months. The politics, the nonsense, etc.
If you want to check out the app you can try it here:
Given that I haven’t heard of many of the other books on the list, I’d say this is a good list I’ll be checking out a few of the titles.
One trick about “reading” (listening) to a good chunk of books has been Audible, to retain the content I’m listening to on my commutes and on the go I take a lot of notes.
As a little self promotion I created a cross platform App that lets you listen to any Article from the web by using great sounding AI/ML to convert the text to audio. I built it recently because I feel really strongly that Audio is a great way to learn and maximize that dead on the go time rather than waste it.
If you’d like to check my app out it’s here:
I was not thinking about the anti-trust implications by not allowing folks to send data back but perhaps there is a middle ground.
It could also increase transparency for consumers by allowing the opt in opt out on the device for each app and letting customers know “this app is tracking your clicks on it”.
The one point about them essentially getting all data, don’t you think they are already doing this? Look at the amount of calls the iPhone is doing back to Apple or the amount of data Android is shipping to Google. I believe they literally are already doing all of it, this would just be a way to give developers access to what they want transparently and reduce the number of unnecessary calls, all the calls would still happen but server side.
Branch - these guys provide deep links into phones and tools to analyze who clicked on the links and if they worked.
mParticle, Appsflyer, Braze formerly Appboy, Appboy all provide internal app marketing teams tools like mobile push or analytics from the app on the phone.
While NewRelic, letsencrypt (free SSL certificates), crashalytics etc are all developer tools to monitor usage and issues with your app.
In summary majority are 3 classes of traffic: CDNs which cache data, Marketing tools such as deep linking analytics etc, and finally developer tools.
Seems like a missed opportunity for Apple and Google to allow users to opt in or out but send data back to one place and then push that out to all these guys so the phone isn’t sending the same data over and over to so many partners and wasting battery.